Improvement in candving-machines



UNITED STATES .PATENT OFFICE. y

FREDERICK \V. CHS. SPIESS, OF NEV YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN CANDVlNGMACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 135,672, dated Febiuary 11, 1873.

To all whom `it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK W. Gris. SPIEss, of the city, county, and State ot' New York, have invented a certain Improvement in Drage or Candying Machines, of which the following is a specification: I

The main part of my invention relates to a drage or candying machine in which the inclined shaft holding the pan or kettle, instead of being driven by beveled wheels, is brought in combination with a driving-shaft, which is provided with a worin, with pulleys and clutches, in such a manner that said worm meshes into the spurs of a cylindrical wheel that is fastened on the said inclined shaft inside of the frame of the machine; the object of my invention being, first, to reduce the space which is generally occupied by the machines, by placing two or more of said machines in one frame 5 second, that one or more of the machines can be set .in operation by one small belt; third, that one or more of the machines can be disengaged or stopped at any time, just as maybe required by the operator 5 fourth, Athat the greatest durability and most quiet and uniform going or turn ofthe ma chine `are obtained.

Figure l is a perspective view of a machine embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a plan of the same, ,showing also how two or more of the machines are to be placed in one frame and to be driven by one pulley.

A is the frame of the machine or machines, which fframe should be substantially constructed to resist the vibrations of the operating parts. Bis the drivingpulley on the shaft C, which receives motion by a belt from apulley hung on the main driving-shaft. D is the inclined shaft carrying the pan or kettle K, which latter is for the reception of the goods to be candied.

The construction of this shaft and the combination of it with the pan or kettle K, as well as the arrangement and mode of heating` the latter byindirect steam, are in general the same as already known and now in use 5 wherefore I do not nd it necessary to give here a detailed description of the same. Suffice it to say that a glance on Fig. l will enable any one skilled in the art to get a full understanding of it.

In the old construction of the machine the shaft D is propelled by two beveled wheels,

of which the one is fastened on said shaft and the other outside of the frame. This arrangement, practical as Vit may be for any other kind of machinery, has not proved to be benetieia-l for drage or candying machines when steam heating, as above referred to, is applied. The loosening of the packing in the stufngbox, which is combined with shaft D, and consequently the getting ont of order ofthe steampipe connections, the escape ot' steam, Ste., caused by the more or less shaking revolutions of said wheels when placed as mentioned above, have been experienced as grave objections to be made against the saine.

In my improved construction 'of the machine I have most effectually avoided all such objections by the application of a drivingshaft, C, which I have placed, as will be seen in the drawing, inside of the frame A, below the lower part of shaft D. This shaft G is substantially supported by the bearings M M, which are placed on the cross-pieces p p of the frame A. It is provided with a worm, w, which meshes into the spurs of the cylindrical wheel W on the shaft D, producing thus a most quiet and uniform motion of the machine.

In order to save space as well as to facilitate the Wo rk, the frame A is extended, as also the shaft C, as shown in Fig. 2, so that two or more machines may be placed nearer together and driven by one pulley, in the same manner as before. In case the one or other of the machines is momentarily to be stopped or not to be used, the clutches t c', which are made movable on C, and constructed as usual, can be used for disengaging the same.

Having now fully described my invention, I wish it distinctly understood that I make no claim to the shaft C provided with pulleys, worms, and clutches, for I am aware that these are not new 5 but I claim as my invention- The combination of the frame A with two or more drage or candying machines, together with the shaft C, which latter is provided with the pulley B, worms zu fw', and clutches v tf, substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore set forth.

FREDERICK W. GHS. SPIESS.

Witnesses:

A. HEXAMEE, FR. RUsoHHAUrT. 

